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I'm not, like, super-close to him, so I don't think I can give really good advice. I would probably say something like "I had this thought about your book and fic and Thavé and banker/historians, and was wondering if you had any thoughts about it". You could even, if you wanted to, say you were chatting with me (he knows my legal name as well as this internet one) about the book.

I have of late been thinking that I don't write enough fan letters to moderately-famous people whose work I enjoy. I have read a bunch of stuff from moderately-famous people saying that they enjoy getting the occasional fan letter, and I can imagine that would be actually pretty awesome, when it didn't get to the point of needing to hire someone to handle all the fan mail. I don't think Benjamin Rosenbaum is anywhere near at the level where fan mail would become irritating, so I would think the worst that would happen, whatever kind of note you send, would be him thinking it was sweet but that he can't engage too much for [reasons].

Or the worst that would happen is that he would post a five-thousand-word essay on his blog in response that would be utterly mind-blowing. Which isn't, like, extremely likely, because dude is busy, but on the other hand, it is the sort of thing that has happened.

I kinda wish I liked podcasts, so I could enjoy the one he and Mary Anne Mohanraj and sometimes Jed are doing, because I suspect it's a lot of fun.